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Walter Henry Shiers interviewed by Hazel de Berg in the Hazel de Berg collection [sound recording]
Bib ID 222220
Format AudioAudio, OnlineOnline
Author
Shiers, Walter Henry
 
Online Versions
Access Conditions Access open for research, personal copies and public use. 
Description 1966 Oct. 29. 
3 sound tape reels (ca. 90 min.) 
Series

Hazel de Berg collection ; DeB 182-184

Summary

Walter Shiers (1889-1968) speaks of his youth; enlisting and joining the Light Horse in World War I; serving in Egypt; transferring to the Australian Flying Corps when formed in 1916 and being assigned as mechanic to C Flight with Captain Ross Smith; accompanying Smith, after the Armistice, on the first flight from Cairo to Calcutta; receiving the Air Force Medal; accompanying Ross and Keith Smith on their prize winning flight from London to Australia, completing this flight in under 28 days, despite many adversities. He recounts details of these pioneering flights.

Notes

Also available online at: http:/­/­nla.gov.au/­nla.oh-vn222220

Index/Finding Aid Note Transcript available (47 p.) 
Subjects Shiers, Walter Henry - Interviews.  |  Aeronautics - Competitions.  |  Flight engineers - Australia - Interviews.
Other authors/contributors De Berg, Hazel, 1913-1984

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ORAL TRC 1/182-184
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Petherick Reading Room (Oral History)
ORAL TRC 1/182-184 (transcript)
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Petherick Reading Room (Oral History)

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